Helen Salisbury: Just say sorry
We’re all human, and we all make mistakes. It’s said that traditional Persian weavers introduced…
Category: General practice / family medicine, UK
GP who was suspended for poor recording keeping and delayed referrals is allowed to work again
A GP who was suspended for nine months from the UK medical register for failings…
Primary care networks: LMC leaders vote to reject revised agreement on directed enhanced services
GP leaders have rejected the primary care networks directed enhanced service (DES) that was agreed…
Helen Salisbury: Whose record is it anyway?
From April 2020, patients will have full online access to prospective data from their patient…
Des Spence: Why #healthbeliefs should be top of all our communications
It was 1986—before the preferred pronoun, when # was an obscure wannabe on life’s keyboard,…
Helen Salisbury: Prestidigitation
This week Matt Hancock, secretary of state for health and social care, welcomed the introduction…
Marmot 10 years on: austerity has damaged nation’s health, say experts
The UK prime minister must lead a national strategy for reducing health inequalities that have…
Helen Salisbury: Risk taking and decision making
My patient was coughing but is better now. Meanwhile, blood tests reveal that, although there…
Rammya Mathew: Racism in medicine—migrant doctors aren’t here ȷust to “fill a gap”
Even at its inception, it was clear that the NHS could not be fully staffed…
Helen Salisbury: Responding to racism
I try hard, but I know that I make mistakes. I practise unfamiliar names to…
Helen Salisbury: Sitting in someone else’s chair
This week I took a turn at our front desk while the reception team had…
GPs are risking own health to provide millions of extra appointments, BMA warns
The latest NHS appointment data show that GPs in England are “risking their own health…
Helen Salisbury: Is transactional care enough?
I’m lucky enough to have been in the same practice since 2002, and I’m still…
Helen Salisbury: The gaps in our knowledge
At medical school we learn to recognise the patterns of symptoms and physical signs that…
Primary care networks: NHS England under pressure to rein in its ambitions
Mounting unrest over the proposed new terms and conditions for general practices to participate in…
BMA calls for special conference after rejecting GP contract over unrealistic demands
GP leaders have rejected an updated contract from NHS England and condemned the work that…
RCGP cancels fossil fuel conference at headquarters after backlash
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has cancelled a conference run by Oil &…
Rammya Mathew: Why are doctors so unhappy?
I’ve always been curious as to why so few doctors recommend a career in medicine….
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Helen Salisbury: When is a consultation not a consultation?
“Why has this patient come to see me?” This is a question every doctor asks…
Helen Salisbury: GPs are stretched too thin
Few people would disagree that general practice is at breaking point, buckling under the weight…
New primary care network contract won’t work, GPs warn
A proposed new contract for general practices to participate in primary care networks contains unrealistic…
Don’t scrap the sugar tax, doctors tell Johnson
Doctors have called on the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, to retain the soft drink…
Helen Salisbury: Oh, those lazy, part time GPs!
Last week the Daily Mail ran a story claiming that only a third of GPs…
Two thirds of GP trainees have no plan to work full time after qualifying, survey finds
Less than a third of GP trainees plan to work full time in general practice…
Drug shortages are fuelling patient complaints, doctors warn
Worsening drug shortages are prompting frustrated patients to file complaints against their GPs, doctors have…
Drastic action is needed to reverse falling GP numbers, says RCGP
The number of full time equivalent GPs in England has fallen by 1.2% in a…
GPs are now outnumbered by wider clinical staff at practices, analysis shows
More non-GP clinical staff now work in general practice in England than GPs, an analysis…
Sexism at the BMA: grassroots GPs call for “action not words” by next May
Local GP leaders have demanded that the BMA’s General Practitioners Committee publish a formal action…
LMC conference: NHS England must apologise for “offensive report” on fraud in general practice
The BMA’s General Practitioners Committee (GPC) must raise a formal complaint with NHS England over…
End out-of-area GP registration, say protesters
GPs and patients took to the streets of Tower Hamlets in east London to protest…
Helen Salisbury: Why I resist giving up home visits
GPs no longer have time to visit patients in their own homes, so the requirement…
GPs call for BMA to take “urgent action” on drug shortages
GPs have demanded that the BMA General Practitioners Committee (GPC) England take “urgent action” to…